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M  EMORI  AL 


PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  SENATE 


UPON  THE   DEATH   OF 


HON.  MILTON  HEIDELBAlfCH, 


LATE  A  SENATOR  FROM  THE  THIRTEENTH  DISTRICT 


PENNSYLVANIA. 


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UNIVERSITY 


HARRISBURG,   PA.: 

HARRISBURG  PUBLISHING  CO.,  STATE  |»RINTER. 

1909. 


OCCKANer 


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RESOLUTION. 


In  the  Senate. 
April  9,  1909. 
Resolved  (if  the  House  of  Representatives  concur),  That  one  thousand 
(1,000)  copies  of  the  proceedings  of  the  memorial  services,  held  in  honor 
of  the  late  Honorable  Milton  Heidelbaiigh,  be  printed  for  the  use  of  the 
Senate, 

HARMON  M.  KEPHART, 
Chief  Clerk  of  the  Senate. 
The  foregoing-  resolution  concurred  in  April  9,  1909. 

THOMAS   H.   GARVIN, 
Chief  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
Approved— The  13th  day  of  May,  A.  D.  1909. 

EDWIN    S.    STUART. 


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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  SENATE 


UPON  THE  DEATH  OF 


HON.  MILTON  HEIDELBAUGH. 


In  the  Senate, 
Tuesday,    March  23,   1909. 

On  motion  of  Senator  Homsher,  the  following  resolution  was  twice 
read,  considered  and  agreed  to,  viz: 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  eight  members  of  the  Senate  be  ap- 
pointed to  draft  suitable  resolutions  on  the  death  of  the  late  Senator, 
Milton  Heidelbaugh,  who  died  on  February  ten,  one  thousand  nine  hun- 
dred and  eight,  and  present  such  resolutions  at  a  special  meeting  to  be 
held  on  Tuesday,  March  thirty,  one  thousand  nine  hundred  ,and  nine,  at 
three  o'clock  post  meridian. 

By  subsequent  action  of  the  Senate  the  date  of  the  special  session  was 
fixed  for  Tuesday,  April  six,  at  three  o'clock  post  meridian. 


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MEMORIAL  RESOLUTIONS  AND  ADDRESSES. 


In  the  Senate, 
Tuesday,  April  6,  1909. 
Afternoon  Session. 

Pursuant  to  adjournment  the  Senate  was  called  to  order  at 
three  o'clock  post  meridian,  Lieutenant-Governor  Murphy  in 
the  chair. 

PRAYER. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  the  Chaplain,  Reverend  J.  Wesley 
Sullivan,  as  follows: 

Called  to  such  services  as  these,  O  Lord,  the  thought 
comes  to  our  mind  that : 

''Art  is  long  and  time  is  fleeting, 

And  our  hearts,  though  stout  and  brave. 
Still,  like  mufifled  drums,  are  beating 
Funeral  marches  to  the  grave." 

We  think  of  those  who  leave  us  and  we  are  led  to  ask  the 
question,  "Shall  we  gather  at  the  river,  the  beautiful  river 
that  flows  by  the  throne  of  God?"  thus  instilHng  into  our 
hearts  the  hope  of  the  great  future  as  we  realize  those  who 
are  leaving  us  on  every  hand.  As  we  come  into  this  hour  of 
service  we  come  with  thoughts  of  joy  rather  than  of  sorrow 
at  the  thought  of  the  life  that  was  lived;  in  this  noble  man 
who  lived  for  home.  State  and  for  the  Nation,  and  who  de- 
voted his  life  to  business,  to  instruction  and  to  service  of 
God.  We  come  wath  these  memories  of  blessedness.  We 
would  remember  in  our  prayer  this  afternoon  those  who  are 

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MEMORIAL  SE^RVICES. 


left  to  mourn.  We  ask  Th}^  blessing  upon  the  widow  and 
upon  the  children  who  think  of  this  one  who  has  left  them. 
We  thank  Thee  to-day  with  them  for  the  comfort  that  comes 
into  their  hearts  of  the  memory  of  this  life.  As  the  days  of 
separation  and  loneliness  grow  may  there  come  a  joy  and 
peace  in  the  memories  of  this  beloved  life.  To  those  who  are 
associated  in  the  temporal  things  may  there  come  to  our 
lives  new  inspiration,  new  desires  to  live  grander  and  nobler 
lives,  so  that  when  we  come  to  the  end  it  will  be  with  the 
hope  of  "gathering  at  the  river,  the  beautiful,  the  beautiful 
river  that  flows  by  the  throne  of  God,"  and  we  ask  all  this 
with  the  forgiveness  of  all  our  sins  in  Jesus  Christ,  our 
Saviour's  name.     Amen. 

Mr.  HOMSHER.  Mr.  President,  by  the  direction  of  the 
committee  appointed  to  draft  resolutions  expressing  the 
sentiments  of  the  Senate  on  the  death  of  the  Honorable  Mil- 
ton Heidelbaugh,  I  offer  the  following  resolutions: 

RESOLUTIONS. 

Whereas,  the  Honorable  Milton  Heidelbaugh,  a  member 
of  the  Senate  of  Pennsylvania,  from  Lancaster  county,  was 
called  from  the  scene  of  his  earthly  labors  and  achievements, 
February  ten,  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and.  eight;  and 

Whereas,  in  his  lifetime  he  rendered  to  his  native  county 
and  the  State  and  Nation  long  and  important  services  as  a 
citizen,  as  a  soldier  in  the  civil  war,  as  member  of  the  Leg- 
islature, and  of  this  Senate ;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  of  Pennsylvania,  at  this  session, 
set  apart  in  his  memory,  give  expression  of  the  loss  it  has 
sustained  in  the  death  of  Senator  Heidelbaugh,  and  of  its 
recognition  of  his  abilities  and  services;  and 

Resolved,  That  to  his  family,  bereaved  of  his  kindly  and 
manly  presence,  the  Senate  extends    its    profoundest    sym- 


HON.  MII^TON  HEIDElvBAUGH. 


pathy  and  prays  for  them  that  consolation  which  can  come 
only  in  bereavements  like  this  from  Him  who  doeth  all 
things  well;  and  joins  with  them  in  the  satisfaction  of  the 
memory  of  his  attainments  and  achievements;  and 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions,  with  the  action 
of  the  Senate  thereon,  duly  engrossed  and  attested,  be  for- 
warded to  his  family. 

JOHN  G.  HOMSHER, 

JOHN  E.  FOX, 

E.  M.  HERBST, 

WILLIAM  C.  SPROUL. 

DANIEL  P.   GERBERICH, 

A.  E.  SISSON, 

A.  G.  DEWALT. 


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ADDRESSES. 

Mr.  HOMSHER.  Mr.  President,  Senator  Milton  Heid- 
elbaugh  was  one  of  the  most  widely-known  and  best-liked 
men  in  Lancaster  county.  I  believe,  and  have  frequently 
said  it  in  his  lifetime,  that,  leaving  out  of  the  question  all 
political  affiliations  and  influences,  he  would  have  received 
at  an  election  as  many  votes  as  any  man  in  the  county.  It 
means  much  to  say  that,  and  comparatively  few  men  attain 
such  a  distinction.  It  is  more  than  ordinary  success  in  life, 
and  it  betokens  the  true  politician.  None  can  arrive  at  such 
a  success,  except  by  friendly  devotion  to  the  assistance  of 
others  or  to  the  work  of  conducting  and  improving  pubHc 
affairs. 

It  is  one  of  the  happiest  and  most  beneficent  features  of 
our  elective  system  of  government  that  it  brings  such  men 
to  the  front.  Like  in  every  other  sphere  of  usefulness,  worth 
is  sure  to  be  recognized.  The  man,  who  unselfishly,  con- 
scientiously and  intelligently  works  for  the  benefit  of  his  fel- 
low men,  is  rewarded  with  the  good  will  and  respect  of  the 
people. 

He  was  a  son  of  John  Heidelbaugh,  and  was  born  on  a 
farm  in  Bart  Township,  Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania, 
April  nineteen,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty-three. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  and  Maple  Grove  Academy 
until  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age,  when  he  became  a  clerk 
in  a  store  at  Georgetown,  in  his  native  township.  During 
the  war,  he  enlisted  in  Company  C,  Fiftieth  Regiment,  Penn- 
sylvania Emergency  Troops.  After  that  he  taught  school 
for  three  years  and  then  went  back  to  clerk  in  a  store.  After- 
wards, in  partnership  with  William  S.  Ferree,  he  went  into 
the  general  merchandise  business  at  White  Hall  store,  in  his 
native  township.  This  was  in  the  village  of  Nickel  Mine,  in 
the  midst  of  the  great  industry  that  was  then  the  largest 
and  most  productive,  if  not  the  only  nickel  mine  in  the  Uni- 
ted* States.     Five  years  later  he  bought  out  the  entire  busi- 


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ness  and  kept  the  store  for  fifteen  years  longer.  Then  he 
went  to  farming-;  after  that  took  up  the  lumber  business,  in 
which  he  was  largely  engaged  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

He  always  took  an  active  interest  in  public  affairs,  doing 
whatever  came  to  his  hand  to  do.  He  served  as  auditor  and 
school  director  of  his  native  township;  was  elected  to  the 
Legislature  in  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighty-five, 
and  afterwards  in  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety- 
three,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-five,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-seven,  one  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-nine;  and  in  one  thousand  nine 
hundred  and  one  was  elected  to  the  Senate,  and  re-elected 
in  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and  five,  and  would  no  doubt 
have  been  re-elected  to  the  Senate  again  had  he  lived. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  an  elder  in  the  First  Pres- 
byterian church  at  Lancaster,  having  long  before  connected 
•himself  with  that  denomination  at  Octoraro,  in  his  home 
township. 

Such  then  was  his  lifework.  A  farmer's  boy,  a  clerk  in  a 
store,  a  soldier  when  his  country  called  for  men  to  put  down 
the  Rebellion,  a  school  teacher,  a  merchant  himself,  a  far- 
mer, a  lumberman,  a  deacon  in  the  church,  a  school  director, 
a  member  of  the  Legislature,  and  a  member  of  the  Senate. 
Amid  such  labors  and  environment  he  spent  his  busy  and 
useful  life.  Ever  ready  to  assist  others  in  their  private  af- 
fairs, or  public  enterprises,  he  became  one  of  the  foremost 
citizens  of  the  county. 

He  was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability,  with  the 
happy  faculty  of  accomplishing  things  more  by  gentle  and 
easy  good  management  than  by  any  great  show  of  earnest 
or  forceful  endeavor.  In  stature  he  was  of  tall  and  splendid 
physique  and  in  manner  he  was  a  very  genial  and  pleasant 
gentleman. 

And  then,  in  the  midst  of  his  achievements  and  enterprises, 
and  when  the  future  seemed  yet  full  of  work  for  him  by  the 
hard-earned  wisdom  learned  by  experience,  he  was  suddenly 
called  hence. 

On  Monday.  February  tenth,  one  thousand  nine  hundred 


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and  eight,  in  apparently  robust  health  and  strength,  he  was 
about  his  work  as  usual,  and  retired  at  nine  o'clock  in  the 
evening.  Half  an  hour  later  he  was  taken  ill,  and  at  eleven 
o'clock  he  passed  away. 

Seldom  was  a  death  announced  that  caused  more  universal 
sorrow  in  the  county.  His  friends  and  brother  Senators 
came  from  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  State  and  laid  him 
gently  away  in  beautiful  Greenwood,  overlooking  the  wind- 
ing Conestoga. 

It  is  hard  to  think  that  he  is  gone.  Let  the  kind  memories 
of  his  life  inspire  us  to  a  still  greater  devotion  to  the  good  of 
the  people  and  the  State,  and  the  lesson  of  his  sudden  death 
admonish  us  to  act  as  if  each  day  may  be  our  last  on  earth. 

Mr.  HERBST.  Mr.  President,  Senator  Heidelbaugh 
and  I  entered  the  Senate  of  Pennsylvania  at  the  same 
time.  The  news  of  his  sudden  death  came  to  me  as  a  severe, 
shock.  Though  knowing  that  he  at  times  suffered  from 
stomach  trouble,  his  appearance  and  vigor  when  we  parted 
at  the  end  of  the  session  of  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and 
seven  seemingly  indicated  many  more  years  of  life  and  ac- 
tivity. 

When  I  recall  the  many  fellow-members  of  Heidelbaugh 
and  myself  who  have  crossed  "over  the  river  and  rest  in  the 
shade  of  the  trees"  of  the  undiscovered  country  from  whose 
bourne  no  traveler  returns,  I  am  lost  in  awe  and  amazement. 
"In  the  midst  of  life  we  are  in  death."  "All  f^esh  is  as  grass, 
and  all  the  glory  of  man  as  the  flower  of  the  grass.  In  the 
morning  it  ilourisheth  and  groweth,  in  the  evening  it  is  cut 
down  and  withereth."  "Why  should  the  spirit  of  mortal 
be  proud?"  Why  should  we  hold  these  heads  of  ours  so 
proudly  and  boastfully  erect,  when  in  a  brief  time,  no  one 
knows  even  how  shortly,  they  will  be  naught  but  what  the 
poet  has  so  graphically  described : 

"Behold  this  ruin!    'Twas  a  skull 

Once  of  ethereal  spirit  full; 

This   narrow   cell  was  life's  retreat, 

This  space  was  thougrht's  mysterious  seat. 

"What  beauteous  visions  filled  this  spot, 


HON.  MILTON  HKIDE^LBAUGH.  13 

"What   dreams   of  pleasure   long   forgot 
Nor  love,  nor  hope,  nor  joy,  nor  fear 
H,as  left  one  trace  of  record  here! 

*  *  ir.  *  *  *  * 

Avails  it  whether  bare  or  shod 
These  feet  the  path  of  duty  trod? 
If  from  the  bowers  of  ease  they  fled, 
To   seek  affliction's   humble   shed; 
If  grandeur's  guilty  bribe   they   spurned 
And  home  to  virtue's  cot  returned — 
These  feet  with  angel's  wings   shall   vie, 
And  tread  the  palace  of  the  sky." 

Suffice  it  to  say  on  my  part  that  Senator  Hiedelbaugh  was 
a  success  in  life.  Others  no  doubt  will  be  better  able  to  give 
an  extended  sketch  of  his  career,  as  farmer's  boy,  school 
teacher,  soldier,  country  merchant  and  lumber  dealer.  In 
political  life  he,  too,  made  good,  serving  his  district  in  var- 
ious local  offices,  and  as  a  member  of  the  Legislature  dur- 
ing five  terms,  and  died,  so  to  speak,  in  the  harness  during 
his  second  term  in  this  Senate.  Had  he  lived,  he  would  no 
doubt  have  been  re-elected. 

Our  personal  friendship  started  at  the  very  beginning  of 
the  session  of  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and  one,  and  con- 
tinued to  the  end.  We  were  near  neighbors  as  to  seats  in 
this  body,  and  for  several  sessions  had  rooms  in  the  same 
hotel.  Not  until  memory  shall  sink  in  the  midnight  pool  of 
oblivion  can  I  forget  the  many  bright  and  cheerful  social 
hours  that  I  have  spent  with  Senator  Heidelbaugh  and  his 
colleague.  Senator  Stober ;  the  good  laughs  I  have  had  over 
the  droll  rem.arks  of  the  deceased,  and  the  lively  and  warm- 
hearted discussions,  between  these  two  friends  of  such  differ- 
ent natural  temperament.  Two  years  ago  the  Senator  and 
I  were  together  a  great  deal,  and  thrown  into  intimate  con- 
tact by  long  trips  in  visiting  State  Normal  Schools,  and  this 
connection  only  served  to  increase  my  regard  for  Senator 
Heidelbaugh's  kindly,  gentlemanly  character.  In  short,  we 
were  true  friends. 

"And   such   a   friendship    ends   not   but   with   life." 

Senator  Heidelbaugh  was  faithful  to  his  duties  and  his 
friends.     He  was  a  thorough  organization  man.     He  was  a 


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useful  Senator,  and  a  chairman  of  an  important  committee 
who  never  lost  his  temper  when  others  were  in  anger.  His 
interest  in  the  education  of  the  young  was  a  notable  trait, 
and  for  years  he  gave  his  time  and  attention  to  the  improve- 
ment of  our  public  and  normal  schools. 

The  sweetness,  simplicity  and  honesty  of  his  nature  are 
the  pride  of  his  friends,  and  his  heritage  for  their  emulation. 

Another  link  in  the  golden  chain  of  Senatorial  friendship 
is  gone.  We  miss  you,  friend  Heidelbaugh.  May  our  loss 
have  proven  your  gain.  May  you  now  be  at  rest  where  the 
flowers  ever  bloom,  where  the  grass  is  ever  green,  where  the 
birds  ever  sing,  and  where  the  ''ended  centuries  are  ever 
in  the  springtime  of  an  eternal  life." 

"There  are  no  dead;  we  fall  asleep, 
To  waken  where  they  never  weep. 
We  close  our  eyes  on  pain  and  sin, 
Our  breath  ebbs  out,  but  life  flows  in." 

I  esteem  it  a  great  privilege  to  add  this  little  spray  to  the 
wreath  in  loving  remembrance  of  Senator  Heidelbaugh, 
which  his  associates  today  weave. 

Mr.  SISSON.  Mr.  President,  We  do  not  wish  to  come 
here  and  dismiss  in  a  few  summary  paragraphs  the  character 
of  one  who  has  filled  such  a  prominent  part  in  connection 
with  the  legislation  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, during  the  last  eighteen  years,  as  has  the  Senator  to 
whose  memory  we  do  honor  to-day,  one  holding  such  a  high 
place  in  the  hearts  of  all  who  knew  him.  Although  the  time 
does  not  require  anything  elaborate  and  adequate,  but  rather 
forbids  it,  some  brief  sentences  of  respect  and  esteem  may 
be  indulged  to  the  sentiment  we  entertain. 

Senator  Heidelbaugh  and  myself  entered  the  Senate  to- 
gether with  the  beginning  of  the  session  of  one  thousand 
nine  hundred  and  one,  and  during  the  first  and  fourth  sessions 
that  followed  we  occupied  adjoining  seats.  While  in  private 
life  he  was  a  business  and  not  a  professional  man,  yet  his 
service  of  five  terms  in  the  House,  before  entering  the  Sen- 
ate, gave  him  an  experience  and  training  that  made  him 
a  most  valuable  member  of  this  body,  and  his  advice  and 


HON.  MILTON  HE^IDEIvBAUGH.  15 

counsel  were  of  great  value  to  an  associate  fortunate  enough 
to  have  his  good  will  and  wise  enough  to  improve  the  oppor- 
tunity afforded  by  that  condition.  He  very  rarely  missed  a 
session  of  the  Senate  during  the  one  special  and  four  regular 
sessions  that  he  was  a  member  here,  and  his  ability  to  grasp 
and  understand  the  scope  and  effect  of  proposed  legislation 
rendered  his  services  in  the  Senate  of  inestimable  value  to  the 
Commonwealth.  He  was  deeply  concerned  for  the  people 
of  the  district  he  represented,  and  no  interest  of  theirs  was 
overlooked  or  forgotten,  and  he  was  efficient  in  producing 
results.  During  the  whole  time  of  his  service  in  the  Senate  he 
was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Mines  and  Mining,  and, 
as  such,  the  demands  upon  his  time,  judgment,  patience  and 
skill  were  very  great,  as  that  period  covered  troublesome 
times  for  mining  people  in  this  Commonwealth. 

He  so  skillfully  managed  and  adjusted  the  differences  of 
persons,  whose  interests  were  conflicting  in  legislation 
sought,  as  to  make  all  his  friends,  and  all  regarded  him  as 
a  friend  of  theirs. 

While  but  slightly  acquainted  with  his  family  and  less  with 
his  neighbors,  I  know  that  to  him  his  family  ties  were  very 
sacred,  and  it  meant  something  for  a  man  to  be  his  neigh- 
bor, and  more  to  be  his  friend. 

Although  he  was  conservative,  and  not  inclined  to  ''dull 
his  pahti  with  entertainment  of  each  new-hatched,  unfledged 
comrade,"  yet  he  was  not  so  reserved  but  that  a  friend,  whom 
he  respected  and,  with  whom  he  occasionally  came  in  con- 
tact, could  not  fail  to  discover  his  splendid  qualities  of  heart. 

The  welfare  of  the  common  people  was  near  and  dear  to 
him. 

Although  a  very  successful  business  man,  he  derived  more 
pleasure  from  relating  his  early  experiences  as  a  boy  upon 
the  farm,  and  later  as  a  school  teacher,  than  in  referring  to 
his  business  successes,  and  his  keen  knowledge  of  human 
nature  enabled  him  to  read  and  picture  the  people  of  whom 
he  talked  in  an  interesting  way  and  true  to  life. 

Senator  Heidelbaugh  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trust- 
ees of  the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  at  Erie,  at  the  time  of 


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his  death.  A  week  or  ten  days  prior  to  that  event  I  attend- 
ed a  reception  given  at  Erie  to  that  board,  and  Senator  Heid- 
elbaugh  was  present.  Speeches  were  incident  to  the  event, 
and  the  Senator  heartily  joined  in  the  wit,  good  will,  and 
good  fellowship  of  the  occasion.  The  afifair  was  a  most  en- 
joyable one,  and  I  little  thought  that  it  was  the  last  of  the 
many  similar  occasions  we  had  enjoyed  together. 

The  board  having  finished  its  business,  he  called  at  my 
office  the  following  afternoon,  and  finding  that  I  was  in  court 
he  came  over  to  the  court  house.  He  waited  for  about  an 
hour  until  I  had  finished  a  case  I  was  engaged  in  trying, 
and  then  we  spent  the  balance  of  the  afternoon  together, 
until  he  took  his  train  in  the  evening  for  home.  I  shall 
never  forget  the  pleasant  hours  I  spent  with  him  that  after- 
noon. We  lived  over  again  many  of  our  experiences  in  the 
Senate,  and  the  faces  of  our  former  colleagues  here  passed 
in  pleasing  review.  While  his  mind  still  entertained  plans 
for  the  future,  he  appeared  at  peace  with  all  the  world,  and 
when  a  few  days  afterward  I  learned  that  he  was  dead,  I  felt 
that  as  I  saw  him  last  he  seemed  like  one  who  had  lived  a 
well-rounded,  useful  and  well-spent  life,  and  was  ready  and 
content  to  respond  to  any  summons  that  the  future  held  for 
him,  whether  to  new  duties  and  responsibilities  in  life,  or 
to  the  final  summons  of  his  Maker. 

Mr.  TUSTIN.  Mr.  President,  on  behalf  of  Senator  Fox. 
I  desire  to  present  the  following  tribute  to  our  late  brother, 
Honorable  Milton  Heidelbaugh : 

Moved  by  that  same  spirit  of  social  unrest  which  has  ever 
actuated  the  Anglo-Saxon  breast  with  the  westward  march 
of  civilization,  a  band  of  sturdy  German  peasants  left  their 
home  in  the  mountain  fastness  of  the  Fatherland  two  hun- 
dred years  ago  finally  settled  amid  the  fertile  valleys  of 
Southeastern  Pennsylvania.  With  them  they  brought  the  lan- 
guage and  customs  of  their  race,  its  stubborn  determination, 
its  deep  piety,  its  reverence  for  home  and  paternal  institu- 
tions and  its  distrust  of  untried  conditions  through  fear  of 
unknown  ills.     Here  they  worked  and  prospered  until  the 


HON.  MII.TON  HKIDE^LBAUGH.  17 

land  became  the  garden  of  the  nation  and  its  sons  and  daugh- 
ters famed  for  their  steding  integrity,  courage  of  their  con- 
victions and  love  for  their  land  of  adoption  coupled  with 
their  mother  tongue. 

Conservative  in  their  manner  of  thought  and  action  they 
sought  no  control  in  wider  fields  of  government  but  were 
content  to  travel  their  paths  of  daily  toil  and  weekly  devotion 
until  hours  of  national  peril  demanded  their  action,  and  then, 
when  rose  in  them  the  spirit  which  for  centuries  had  watched 
the  Rhine,  history  recorded  achievements  which  recalled  the 
deeds  of  valor  of  their  noble  ancestors  told  by  Tacitus  and 
Livy. 

Of  this  race  and  kind  was  Milton  Heidelbaugh,  born  of 
a  pious,  scholarly  and  aggressive  line.  His  early  life  was 
spent  amid  all  the  protecting  environment  of  a  typical  Lan- 
caster home,  his  early  education  obtained  in  the  typical  Lan- 
caster county  school  and  there  again  presiding  as  the  typical 
school  master.  He  entered  in  the  exploitation  of  the  natural 
resources  of  his  own  and  adjoining  county  and  made  his  suc- 
cessful life  work. 

His  ability  and  standing  in  his  community  demanded  of 
him  public  service,  and  in  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-five 
he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature,  from  his  county  and  served 
again  in  that  House  from  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
ninety-three  until  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and  three, 
when  he  was  elected  to  this  body,  of  which  he  was  an  hon- 
ored member  until  his  death. 

As  a  man  and  oilficer  he  exemplified  all  the  best  qualities 
of  his  race  and  kind.  He  was  stalwart,  honest,  truthful  and 
ever  watchful  of  the  best  interests  of  his  constituents.  At- 
tentive to  his  duty  he  was  ever  at  his  post  and  shirked  no 
labor,  and  believed  no  time  ill  spent  in  investigating  the 
matters  coming  before  him  for  deliberation.  He  was  faith- 
ful to  his  party,  faithful  to  his  friends  and  faithful  to  the 
traditions  of  his  fathers. 

While  such  occasions  as  these  are  always  sad,  we  temper 
our  sense  of  bereavement  with  the  kind  and  pleasant  recol- 
lection of  the  noble  characteristics    of    the    honored    dead. 


18  me:moriaiv  services. 

While  we  regret  his  loss,  we  rejoice  in  the  memory  of  the 
life  which  he  has  left  us,  and  are  glad  with  him  when  he 
met  death  full  front  in  the  spirit  of  his  forefathers,  he  only 
laid  aside  his  earthly  trappings  to  enter  into  a  well  earned 
rest. 

The  question  being, 

Will  the  Senate  agree  to  the  adoption  of  the  resolutions? 

Mr.  HOMSHER.  Mr.  President,  I  move  the  adoption 
of  the  resolutions. 

Mr.  TUSTIN.     Mr.  President,  I  second  the  motion. 

The  PRESIDENT.  On  this  the  roll  will  be  called  by  the 
clerk. 

The  roll  was  called  by  the  clerk  as  follows: 

YEAS. 

Messrs.  Dewalt,  Blewitt,  Campbell,  Cochran,  Crawford, 
Crow,  Dewalt,  Dimeling,  Fox,  Gerberich,  Grim,  Hall,  Har- 
per, Hays,  Herbst,  Homsher,  Hulings,  James,  Jamison,  Key- 
ser,  Kline,  Klinedinst,  Kurtz,  Langfitt,  Manbeck,  Martin, 
McConnell,  Mcllhenny,  McNichol,  Miller  (Northampton), 
Miller  (Bedford),  Murphy,  Riley,  Rowland,  Shields,  Sisson, 
Snyder,  Sproul,  Templeton,  Thomson,  Tustin,  Vare,  Wal- 
ton, Weingartner,  Wertz,  Wilbert  and  Wolf. — 47. 

NAYS. 
None. 

ABSENT  OR  NOT  VOTING. 
Messrs.  Catlin,  Durham  and  Rodgers. — 3. 
A  majority  of  all  the  Senators  having  voted  "aye,"  the 
resolutions  were  adopted. 


HON.  MIIvTON  HEIDKlvBAUGH.  19 

ADJOURNMENT. 

Mr.  KEYSER.     Mr.  President,  I  move  that  the  Senate 
take  a  recess  until  four  o'clock  this  afternoon. 

Mr.  HERBST.     Mr.  President,  I  second  the  motion. 

The  question  being. 

Will  the  Senate  agree  to  the  motion? 
It  was  agreed  to. 

Whereupon, 
At  three  fifty  post  meridian  the  Senate  took  a  recess  until 
four  o'clock  post  meridian. 


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